Analysis of the Level of Knowledge and Physical Condition of the PSSI Askab Referee of Southwest Aceh Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Referees are part of the match apparatus and must understand all the rules related to football as mandatory knowledge to lead matches with measurable quality in making every decision. This research aims to: 1) find out the Level of Knowledge of the Referee Askab PSSI Southwest Aceh Regency in 2024, 2) find out the Level of Physical Condition of the Referee Askab PSSI Southwest Aceh Regency in 2024. This study uses a quantitative approach with a descriptive type of research. The population in the study was 20 people, and the entire population was used as a research sample, so this study is called a population study with details of C-1 license referees as many as three people, C-2 license referees as many as five people and C-3 license referees as many as 12 people. The data collection technique is done by distributing test questions directly to respondents related to referee knowledge data.

Meanwhile, the physical condition ability test was carried out by measuring the ability of the cardiopulmonary endurance test (Balke 15 minutes), speed ability (30-meter running test), and agility ability (T-Test). The results of the measurement of referee knowledge showed that the category was very good for two people (10%), the good category was for 13 people (65%), and the category was acceptable for five people (25%). Meanwhile, the level of physical condition related to the element of agility shows that 14 people are in the very good category (70%), four people are in the good category (20%), and two people are in the medium category (10%). The speed test results obtained the speed ability of the Aceh Southwest Askab referees, namely 20 people are in the good category (100%). Furthermore, the results of the cardiopulmonary endurance test of the Southwest Aceh assab referees were 20 people, or all of them were at the medium category level (100%). Based on the study results, it can be concluded that the average level of knowledge of the Askab PSSI Southwest Aceh referees is in the medium category, with a frequency of 13 people (65%). Meanwhile, for the ability of physical condition of each, namely agility is in the very good category of 14 people (70%), speed ability is in the good category (100%), and cardiopulmonary endurance ability is in the medium category as many as 20 people (100%).